x'Crippled Inside'(Unreleased Take)
by John Lennon from the "IMAGINE" album,
[Remastered] 2010 & 2000, originally recorded in 1971.
URL:
Crippled Inside (Unreleased Take)/ John Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXyVCEOGES8
AUTHOR's Note:
This version was borne out of the frustration of not finding an accurate TAB
to match Lennon's twist on C&W music '...with a conscience".
Tab annotated by Richard Grosser (grosserr@gmail.com)
TUNING:
Standard Tuning.
Chords:
EADGBE
C: 332010
C7: 032310
F: 133211
F7: 131211
Bb: 113331
B: 224442
A: x02220
Am: x02210
Am7: x02010
A7: x02020
G: 320003
G7: 320001
D7: xx0212
Ab7: 464544
Eb9: 065666
C9: x32330
(Tempo Adante 2/4)
Intro:
(Slide Guitar)
CG7CGFCFC7FBbFC7FG
Verse 1:
CC7
You can shine your shoes and wear a suit,
FF7
You can comb your hair and look a quite cute.
CCBBbA
You can hide your face behind a smile.
A7D7
One thing you can't hide,
G7C
Is when you're crippled inside.
Verse 2:
CC7
You can wear a mask and paint your face,
FF7
You can call yourself the human race.
CCBBbA
You can wear a collar and a tie.
A7D7
One thing you can't hide,
CCBBbA
Is when you're crippled inside.
Chorus:
A7Am
Well now you know,
Am
That your cat has nine lives, babe.
D7G7
Nine lives to itself,
C
You only got one,
CAm7
And a dog's life ain't fun.
CG7C
Mamma take a look outside.
Verse 3:
CC7
You can go to church and sing a hymn,
FF7
Judge me by the colour of my skin.
CCBBbA
You can live a lie until you die.
A7D7
One thing you can't hide,
CCBBbA
Is when you're crippled inside.
Instrumental:
C
Take it Billy!
(Honky-Tonk Piano Solo)
CC7FF7CCBBbAA7D7CCBBbA
(Repeat Chorus)
(Repeat Verse 1)
['You can shine your shoes and wear...' inadvertently omitted]
Outro:
A7D7
One thing you can't hide,
CBBbA
Is when you're crippled inside.
(Slow 2/2 Tempo)
A7D7
One thing you can't hide,
GG7CC7FAb7G7Eb9C9
Is when you're crippled inside.
(End)
Background:
http://www.beatlesbible.com/people/john-lennon/albums/imagine/
Comment from Rolling Stone:
"Crippled Inside", Imagine, 1971
Lennon followed the opening peace anthem on his second album with this grenade
wrapped in rockabilly rhythm and prairie-saloon piano, with a slinky country-boy
solo on dobro by George Harrison.
The chorus 'One thing you can't hide, Is when you're crippled inside.' may have
been a slap at ex-bandmate Paul McCartney
(who would get it full blast on Side Two, in 'How Do You Sleep?').
But when Lennon wrote in the second person, he often did it staring into a mirror."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/twenty-underappreciated-john-lennon-solo-songs-20101210